Gaza Herald_ The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned that Washington’s political backing is enabling Israel to prolong the devastation in Gaza and continue acts that amount to genocide against the civilian population.
In a statement released Sunday, the organization said U.S. support for Israel, including its endorsement of linking ceasefire progress to the retrieval of a single body from Gaza, represents blatant complicity in Israel’s ongoing breaches of the ceasefire.
These violations include the siege of civilians, their mass displacement, and the systematic destruction of remaining homes.
The Monitor stressed that the lives of more than two million Palestinians in Gaza cannot be made conditional on political or military demands that are largely unattainable in current conditions. It cautioned against turning humanitarian necessities into bargaining chips within negotiation processes.
According to the organization, the sheer scale of destruction across Gaza, combined with Israel’s deliberate targeting of search-and-rescue capabilities, has rendered Israeli ceasefire conditions practically impossible to fulfill. U.S. support under these circumstances, it said, reinforces an unlawful merging of political negotiations with fundamental humanitarian rights that must be guaranteed immediately and without compromise.
Euro-Med Monitor noted that this U.S. cover translates directly into life-threatening conditions for Gaza’s civilians, who are forced to survive under extreme deprivation. At the same time, Israel continues to exploit the situation to entrench military dominance over more than 53 percent of the Strip after laying waste to most of its infrastructure.
The group warned that maintaining the current reality condemns Gaza’s population to a slow and deliberate death, particularly as winter intensifies the humanitarian crisis. It pointed out that at least 18 civilians have died this month as a result of severe weather, including five children who froze to death.
The Monitor urged the international community to establish an independent oversight mechanism to ensure border crossings are genuinely opened and that aid enters Gaza swiftly and without conditions. It also called on the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing to urgently intervene and pressure Israel to allow temporary housing units and debris-clearing equipment into the enclave.
The statement comes as the first phase of a U.S.-announced ceasefire plan, unveiled by President Donald Trump in late September, remains undermined by continued Israeli violations and delays in advancing to its second stage.
